Baritone

Marcello

(11, 16, 21, 25, 30 July)

From 2020 to 2025, Martin Häßler was a member of the Vienna State Opera, where he performed as Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus), Fritz Kothner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Donner (Das Rheingold), Melot (Tristan und Isolde), Der Einäugige (Frau ohne Schatten), Don Fernando (Fidelio), Ping (Turandot), Schaunard (La Bohème), Ned Keene (Peter Grimes), Masetto (Don Giovanni), Cesare Angelotti (Tosca), Moralès (Carmen), and the First Nazarene (Salome), as well as Simon in Haydn’s The Seasons with the Vienna State Ballet.

Future tasks include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Thomanerchor and the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Andreas Reis, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the RIAS Chamber Choir and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin under Justin Doyle, a new production of The Blacksmith as part of LORTZING 26 at the Leipzig Opera, and Schubert’s Winterreise with Akademie Murakami at LiedERLEBEN in Munich.

His previous operatic engagements have included performances at the Opéra de Lyon (Ratzekahl in Schrekers Irrelohe, Don Iñigo in Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole), the Oper Leipzig (Heerrufer in Lohengrin, Monterone in Rigoletto, Adi the Dwarf in Marius Felix Lange’s Snow White), Nevill Holt Opera (Così fan tutte), Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Opéra de Vichy (ll Gran Sacerdote in Nabucco), Tonhalle Düsseldorf (Schumann’s Geneva), Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg and Theater Gera-Altenburg (The Rape of Lucretia), and Barbican Centre, London (Henzes Ein Landarzt und Phaedra).

He has worked with conductors such as Howard Arman, Marco Armiliato, Christoph Altstaedt, Sian Edwards, Bertrand de Billy, Jörg Endebrock, Ádám Fischer, Christoph Gedschold, Michele Gamba, Ludwig Güttler, Axel Kober, Giedrė Šlekytė, Alexander Soddy, Masaaki Suzuki, Patrick Lange, Antonello Manacorda, Cornelius Meister, Franz Welser-Möst, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Alejo Pérez, Daniele Rustioni, Christian Thielemann, Jonathan Stockhammer, and Simone Young. He has also collaborated with directors such as Frank Castorf, Claus Guth, Keith Warner, David Bösch, Calixto Bieito, Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito, and James Bonas.

His concerts have taken him to venues such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Ruhr Klavierfestival with Graham Johnson, the Lyrisches Salon with Daniel Heide, Leeds Lieder, the Oxford Lieder Festival with Bengt Forsberg and Sholto Kynoch, LSO St. Luke’s in London, Snape Maltings with Bittens Canticles, and the Wiener Musikverein. In 2019, he performed the opening recital for LIFE Victoria Barcelona with Julius Drake and sang Mahler’s Rückert Lieder to L’Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi.

His diverse concert repertoire takes him regularly throughout Europe, including performances at the Thomaskirche and Gewandhaus Leipzig, the Frauenkirche Dresden with Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich with Handel’s Jephtha, the L’Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, and finally, with Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan in Tokyo, performing Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.

He is a graduate of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig, the opera program at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London (under Rudolf Piernay), and a winner of several competitions, including “Das Lied” and the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang. Numerous masterclasses (including those with Thomas Hampson and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) led him to institutions such as the Heidelberger Frühlings Lied Academy and Edith Wien’s International Meistersinger Academy.

Martin Häßler was a scholarship recipient of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and is currently working for mentoringArts at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig.